I've never really been the standard of health, it's true. And a couple of the ailments I've discovered to the world have been pretty puzzling. But this one is just plain weird. Just about every time I indulge in a large dose of vitamin C, I get a cold. I almost never get a cold nowadays what with my strict Claritin diet, but vitamin c gets me every time!
That drink powder I got in some packages on my mission didn't do it, thank goodness, but the half-gallon of orange juice I drank during a particularly long day at the train station during transfers certainly did. The c-supplements I got in the MTC to ward off the sickness going around had 800% of my daily value, and rather than warding off any cold for the next ten years, it gave me a cold like none I've had before or since, which led to an ear-infection that messed up my ears to this day. And a few days ago I invested in some Centrum. It's got 170% of my vitamin c in it. Suddenly I've got a cold.
Coincidence? Dubitable.
Anybody else have this going on? Does it run in the family? Or did my body just get creative again?
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13 years ago
1 comment:
Can't say that that's ever happened to me, but I never really monitor my vitamin C intake...
I also have to say, that I'm getting over a rather nasty cold myself. Seeing as we were in the same company on Saturday, this could just be a sharing-of-germs cold.
Hope you're feeling better!
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